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points by verdverm 4 hours ago | 0 comments

Where is it illegal? I know of many examples where people are running companies doing this across a variety of domains. (not software, no ai)

Trade secrets have no legal protection

[–] apatheticonion 4 hours ago

It's a fair question. Are you familiar with clean room concepts and why they are required to circumvent the legal hurdles associated with reverse engineering projects?

[–] verdverm 4 hours ago

Where are you getting this legal hurdle stuff from? People have been doing this since forever

Sandy Monroe is a great current example, tears down cars and builds reports. The auto industry has distillation built in